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29.10.09Playing lazy buggers, I get out of bed at midday and decide to walk to the far end of town and see the rest of the Mui Ne strip. The place is basically one road that follows the beach and as I walk along, I realise that it isn't really a backpacker/traveler place and the amount of seriously nice and high class resorts definitely puts the place up at the top end. Some of the places look phenomenal and I definitely want to come back one year and live it up in one of the nice resorts.My indulgence of last night has sown the seed of the splurge in me and so I end up donning my Green Flash trainers, a Flash Gordon t shirt and my flashpack and going for lun
ch at Cham Villas. Cham Villas classes it self as a Boutique Luxury Resort and consists of 16 luxury villas in 9000m2 of tropical gardens with a 60m private beach, average. Sitting in their restaurant listening to light jazz and lounge music, sipping on glasses of Chardonnay was quite nice, although they probably wondered what I was doing walking in wearing my swimming trunks a pair of walking sandals and an old green t-shirt. The seal on my last few days of living it up has been broken and I don't want to think about what tomorrow will entail.
28.10.09Absorbing the sun, relaxing on the sand, watching the kite surfers, dipping in the surf my self and reading a good book are today's activities. After a reasonably late wake up I kick back on the beach and relax, no plans apart from chilling over the last few days of my travels.
Come evening time, it's just me and Clare left as Lee departed for Saigon this morning. Clare isn't really a backpacker, she is more of a flashpacker and with me cutting my travels short by a month, I have some spare cash floating around. We head over to a snazzy restaurant called Snow for dinner and pick up a Belgium guy called Micheal on the way. It's a Russian owned place and is definitely devoid of backpackers as it is one of the more expensive places in Mui Ne. Throughout our time in the restaurant/bar, I have a Manhattan cocktail, a delicious tiger prawn salad, fresh grilled fish fillets with a tiger prawn and caviar creamy sauce, chocolate orange cake as desert and then a White Russian to finish off. Even though I thoroughly indulged and this is an expensive place in Mui Ne, it still all comes to only £16. After dinner we hit Sakura, a very very very cool, chic and trendy bar complete with it's own pool and sun loungers in an all white LED lit interior set right on the beach. Some beers and cocktails see us through until 2am in what is a very indulgent night, but still so cheap compared to back home.
ch at Cham Villas. Cham Villas classes it self as a Boutique Luxury Resort and consists of 16 luxury villas in 9000m2 of tropical gardens with a 60m private beach, average. Sitting in their restaurant listening to light jazz and lounge music, sipping on glasses of Chardonnay was quite nice, although they probably wondered what I was doing walking in wearing my swimming trunks a pair of walking sandals and an old green t-shirt. The seal on my last few days of living it up has been broken and I don't want to think about what tomorrow will entail.
